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What would you guys consider the main underlying theme for this book? I really have no reason to ask. I'm just wondering since I don't know myself. Posted by cheesepie14 on Apr 7, 2009. |
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I think the main theme is summarized in one of their slogans: who controls the present, controls the past; who controls the past controls the future. This is incredibly relevant to our own times. The media, the Internet all flood us with so much information that it's hard to know what's true of not. Present politicans bash previous politicans, but who knows if their information is correct. Is it possible that the Republicans are responsible for everything bad since the original sin when the Democrats are in power and visa versa. Jefferson said that Democracy could only survive with an educated electorate. Today getting that level of education is almost impossible since it's difficult to separate fact from propaganda. Maybe this is why we learn so little from history; since the past does not exist (we can't go back and check it out), it is often what we are TOLD that it is, and we become victims again of propaganda. It's up to us to make sure that WE "control" the past so WE can help make the future. Posted by timbrady on Apr 8, 2009. |
